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Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson: 27 Years

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson: 27 Years

Together, the actors have produced not only two children, but more than a dozen movies, including Mamma Mia! and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. (Now that's a fruitful union.) Tom made our hearts melt when, after celebrating their 25-year anniversary, he told Ellen DeGeneres: "I'm not one to suck up to the audience, but the only thing we ever argue about is who loves each other more."

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Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell: 33 Years

Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell: 33 Years

Some of the longest-lasting relationships aren't marriages — and maybe that's why they're so happy. Goldie and Kurt have been together ever since their 1984 box office bomb Swing Shift, and they've raised four kids: one of their own and three from previous marriages, including Kate Hudson.

Goldie's gone on the record to say she likes the freedom of being unmarried: "I already feel devoted, and isn't that what marriage is supposed to do? So as long as my emotional state is in a state of devotion, honesty, caring and loving, then we're fine."

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson: 27 Years

Together, the actors have produced not only two children, but more than a dozen movies, including Mamma Mia! and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. (Now that's a fruitful union.) Tom made our hearts melt when, after celebrating their 25-year anniversary, he told Ellen DeGeneres: "I'm not one to suck up to the audience, but the only thing we ever argue about is who loves each other more."

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Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell: 33 Years

Some of the longest-lasting relationships aren't marriages — and maybe that's why they're so happy. Goldie and Kurt have been together ever since their 1984 box office bomb Swing Shift, and they've raised four kids: one of their own and three from previous marriages, including Kate Hudson.

Goldie's gone on the record to say she likes the freedom of being unmarried: "I already feel devoted, and isn't that what marriage is supposed to do? So as long as my emotional state is in a state of devotion, honesty, caring and loving, then we're fine."

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Meryl Streep and Don Gummer: 37 Years

Meryl may get more mentions than God in Oscars acceptance speeches, but in her own award thank-yous, she always puts her sculptor husband first. In 2012, when accepting the Best Actress award for The Iron Lady, she said, "First I'm going to thank Don, because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech, they play him out with the music, and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you've given me." The couple have four children: one son and three Meryl-lookalike daughters.

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Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan: 27 Years

In 1991, when Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, the couple had a tremendous new challenge to face, which he opened up about in an interview with Good Housekeeping.

But their feelings for each other never wavered. "My instincts were proven out: Tracy is the right person for me," he said. The couple has four kids together, three of whom were born after Fox was diagnosed.

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Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham: 30 Years

Another unmarried couple, they were briefly engaged in 1992, but decided they're happier to be in a "spiritual union". Oprah has gone on the record to say that this has saved their relationship: "If you ever interviewed him, he would tell you that had we married, we would not be together today," Oprah said of Stedman. "If I had the title 'wife,' I think there would be other expectations for what a wife is and what a wife does. First of all, you've got to come home sometimes."

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Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness: 20 Years

While Jackman has gone from unknown to A-List during their marriage, Furness is a well-known star in their native Australia. The actors are making their hectic schedules work, though. He has made a pact never to be apart from his family for longer than two weeks. The Les Misérables star is quite the "Mr. Romance," too: "My number-one rule for romance is surprise," he told Good Housekeeping. "If I bring Deb flowers every Tuesday, yeah, it's nice, but is it romantic?"

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Jeff Bridges and Susan Geston: 38 Years

Bridges met "Sue" while filming a movie on the Montana ranch where she worked. "I couldn't take my eyes off her," he wrote in an essay for Good Housekeeping. "Not only was she gorgeous, but she had two black eyes and a recently broken nose (from a car accident, I later learned). Something about her beauty and disfigurement kept me riveted."

They were married within two years — after, as Bridges admitted, he battled some commitment-phobic demons. "Thank god I finally got with the program," he writes. The couple has three daughters.

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Patrick Dempsey and Jillian Fink: 17 Years

The key to a successful marriage, Dempsey said in an interview, is "accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words, 'Yes, dear. Whatever you want.'"

Another secret that keeps the couple together: individual time. "She'll do things on her own so she can come back and be much more patient with the kids. I go car racing." The couple have two kids.

The pair nearly split in January 2015, but Dempsey said "lots of sex" saved their relationship (among other things).

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Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick: 28 Years

Bacon and Sedgwick met on the set of a PBS show they both worked on, and have since starred in several movies together. They make their marriage work by being super-romantic: "We do date night," said Bacon. "It's having the apartment to ourselves: We lock the doors, fool around, make dinner, watch a movie." They also like to have candlelit dinners with their two kids — no electronics allowed.

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Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest: 32 Years

In 1984, the two were married at the home of their mutual friend, director Rob Reiner. You'd never guess it, but they're a royal couple: Christopher — who is a director — is the Right Honourable Fifth Baron Haden-Guest of Saling. This means when they got married, Curtis became Lady Haden-Guest. They have two adopted kids.